Snails in Pocket PC Magazine!

[NYIllustrator]

Was at Barnes and Noble tonight and saw that snails was in Pocket PC magazine and got a good review. It even had screen shots! They only mentioned Peter by name though.

[randall]

haven't seen it yet, but I knew it was coming. We are in the PocketPC Magaizine online Hotpicks, too.

Dunno why people never mention us (the artists) in anything. Its not a big deal, the fact that the game was mentioned and Peter got his name in print is cool enough.

[R0B]

The programmers are always the gods to most people. That's just the way it is. On the otherhand, who would want to play a state of the art, revolutionary new 3d engine, that packs tons of special effects, if all of the sprites are stick figures and the textures look like crayon scibles

[Mike Bannick]

From the pocketpc magazine website:

Snails: Battle for the planet Schnoogie

Peter Balogh has made a name for himself in the Pocket PC gaming scene with his Gamebox (http://ce.syntact.fi/pages/products.shtml), a variety pack featuring Pocket PC versions of many popular classic games (Snake, Tetris, and several others). Now Peter, along with a group of developers calling themselves the "Snails Team," have taken things to a higher level with Snails, an action-strategy game inspired by PC classics such as Scorched Earth and Worms. Your mission is to help an army of snails (the Moogums, the Lupeez, and the Nooginz) defeat each other and conquer the planet Schnoogie by launching strategic attacks with a variety of weapons.

Snails is a very polished game with colorful, cartoon-like backgrounds and clever animation. The game has a cute storyline, whimsical background music, and a plethora of jokes and one-liners. The interface is easy to navigate, with good game play and lots of challenging and entertaining scenarios. Snails is continually being improved, and version 1.6 was already available at the time of this review. The Snails Team is actively soliciting feedback on the game via their Web site, so fans of the genre will likely enjoy this game for some time to come.



In Snails, you'll have to select your race of snails and choose your weapons carefully if you want to win the war.

Snails occupies 4 Mb of storage space and takes 8 Mb of system RAM when running. It is priced at $11.95 and is available for all Pocket PCs. The commercial version and a free demo are available on the Snails Web site (http://ce.syntact.fi/snails/).

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/Jul02/games.asp

there u have it.

[ingallsj]